%0 Journal Article
%T Diagnostic value of a simplified screening test for metabolic syndrome in a Dutch patient cohort with schizophrenia spectrum disorders
%A Bert L Luteijn
%A Els van der Ven
%A Jan P Bogers
%A Jean-Paul Selten
%A Salcey G Amzand
%J Australasian Psychiatry
%@ 1440-1665
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/1039856218779137
%X The aim of this study was to establish the specificity and sensitivity of a simplified screening test based on diastolic blood pressure and waist circumference for predicting metabolic syndrome. Demographic, anthropometric (waist circumference and systolic and diastolic blood pressure) and laboratory (triglyceride, high-density lipoprotein and fasting glucose) data were collected from a large cohort of Dutch patients with a schizophrenia spectrum disorder in order to determine whether patients fulfilled the Western criteria of the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) for metabolic syndrome. The sensitivity, specificity, likelihood ratio of a positive or negative test outcome and positive and negative predictive values of the simplified test (only waist circumference and diastolic blood pressure) were calculated. Of 252 recruited patients, 55% met the IDF criteria for metabolic syndrome. The sensitivity and the specificity of the simplified test were 65% and 85%, respectively. The likelihood ratios of positive and negative test outcomes were 4.35 and 0.41, respectively, and the positive and negative predictive values were 87% and 67%, respectively. This simplified screening test did not have diagnostic validity for metabolic syndrome in a Dutch cohort of patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorder
%K metabolic syndrome
%K screening
%K diagnostic
%K schizophrenia
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1039856218779137